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Google has just agreed to buy
Titan Aerospace, a maker of high-
altitude solar-powered drones that
was in acquisition talks with
Facebook just a few months ago.
According to the Wall Street
Journal, the Mountain View
company hopes to use these long-
lasting autonomous vehicles to
assist its Project Loon project,
which aims to broadcast internet
signals to parts of the world that
can't get online. Facebook, on the
other hand, went ahead with
another drone company called
Ascenta for Internet.org, its own
worldwide internet initiative .
Google has uses for Titan beyond
just Project Loon, however. The
drones could also be useful for
Makani, a Google project to build
an energy-efficient airborne wind
turbine. As the unmanned planes
are also able to collect high-res
images of earth and support voice
and data services, they could also
be of use in other Google
divisions, such as Maps. While all
Titan employees are now a part of
Google, they'll remain in New
Mexico for the time being. The
terms of the purchase have not
been disclosed.